It seems Rita is going to be worse than Katrina. Again there’s seems to be no real sense of urgency as life in the United States will forever be changed by these two hurricanes and those that seem sure to follow. A pattern is emerging. This is not coincidence. These storms would have stayed storms or smaller Hurricanes if the Gulf Waters were not so warm. As long as they are warm, I imagine there will be more hurricanes and of the same strength.
Wherever a Category 5 hurricane hits it will destroy everything. It will absolutely destroy Gavelston and put in underwater if it hits there. The city is just an island.
Since we have had two hurricanes like this, there is no reason to think that more would not be coming. I would like to know why the Gulf Waters are so warm. Is it because of Global Warming? If it is we can expect that every year these hurricanes will be wiping out all life along the Gulf Coasts during hurricane season. A portion of the United States will become uninhabitable and a source of oil will be completely cut off.
These two hurricanes are going to severely damage the oil industry and make the continued presence of US troops either impossible or absolutely necessary (from a right wing perspective). Consider the vulnerability the United States will now experience with a large portion of it’s oil wells and oil refineries destroyed and or badly damaged. Consider the winter and the economic impact on people and businesses not even remotely affected by the hurricane. Almost all airlines are in bankruptcy, freight lines will follow, transportation will be greatly curtailed in the delivery of goods and people.
What is most dangerous is that at this time of National Emergency we have so many incompetent people who have been appointed to serious agencies like FEMA and Homeland Security. The only competent entity to handle these emergencies is the military.
It seems the military is going to get involved in the daily life of everyone soon. There may be an actual need for the military to take over given the incompetency of the people who run our nation. They are not just the heads of agencies, they are the people from directors to secretaries who have been selected for reasons that have nothing to do with ability.
This nation no longer rewards people with skill, but people who have the appearance of skill and the clout to get the job. Not get the job done….just get the job.
The weakest most vulnerable part of this nation is it’s incompetency. Bush has done everything he could to appoint incompetent people at every level. This was happening before he arrived as president, but now it is out of control. These two hurricanes and the war in Iraq are exposing the institutionalization of incompetent people. George Bush is a incompetent president with very little experience, He has modeled the American government after himself. The competent people were driven out. Zinni, Bunnington…there are so many that we have never heard of. The United States is a house of cards.
This is either going to turn the US into a nation that cares for itself by removing itself from foreign political intrigue or it will turn the US into a military monster that conquers oil rich nations under some invented phony rationale
I don’t mean to be doom and gloom. But it seems that the structural strength of the nation has been invisibly deteriorating, eaten away in termite fashion, invisible and made known only when a stress is placed on the structure and it gives way too easily revealing a long developed unseen weakness as witnessed by the collapse of governmental response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. These hurricanes are making it clear both in reality and in metaphor that we have very little structure holding us up. It’s been eaten way by the preponderance of corruption and the millionaires who have bought there way into positions of authority, rather than earned and learned their way to these positions.
Typically the Military steps in, in most countries when the politically corrupt governors of a country can no longer govern due to their incompetence. I don’t think this is about to happen, but it could if the situation deteriorates a lot further than it is now. And that is possible.
